Islamic State throws gay
people off high buildings, UN to hear(Sydney Morning Herald) Aug 14 - United Nations: Two men, one Iraqi and one Syrian, targeted by Islamic
State for being gay will brief the United Nations Security Council on their
experience as part of a bid by the United States and Chile to draw attention to
the "brutal attacks" by the militant group.

How Isis has established
a bureaucracy of rape (The
Guardian, Australia) Aug 16 – (Opinion: Nussaibah Younis) One year on from the summit to end sexual
violence in conflict, convened by Angelina Jolie and William Hague in London,
the self-proclaimed Islamic State has developed a complex bureaucracy of sex
slavery that makes a mockery of the summit’s goal to bring about an end to the
use of rape and sexual violence in war.